Eshaan Mehta
YES Cinema will host the screening of a student’s documentary about a Exhibit Columbus installation he helped create.
The movie theater will show a free screening of the film “Tunnel Vision” on Saturday, March 5. The documentary was created by Columbus North senior Eshaan Mehta, who was part of the high school design team for the installation.
Following the film, there will be a time of conversation with Columbus native Kyle Inskeep, who is an Emmy award-winning anchor for Local 12 News in Cincinnati.
The event is produced in partnership with the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. and its C4 program.
The documentary focuses on the design and build of the 2020-21 high school design team’s Exhibit Columbus installation.
Exhibit Columbus alternates between an exhibition one year and a symposium the next. It is an exploration of art, architecture, design and community that highlights the city’s global legacy in Modernist architecture, and promotes creativity and fresh ideas about that for the future.
The 2021 theme for Exhibit Columbus was “New Middles: From Main Street to Megalopolis, What is the Future of the Middle City?” The cycle of programming explored the future of the center of the United States and the regions connected by the Mississippi Watershed.
The project description for Tunnel Vision states that waterways shape both the formation of cities and their future development.
“Tunnel Vision looks at how Columbus was formed as a middle city and how it can develop into a larger city,” the description states. “Just as rivers have a linear path, our geodesic tunnel is a linear experience that transports you through history.”
For the project, the high school team created a tunnel made up of green and blue triangles, with etchings of local buildings displayed on the latter. The project included QR codes linked to informational videos about these pieces of local architecture. The team also created a video showing changes to Columbus over time and onward into the future.
“We got to essentially redesign all of downtown Columbus, which I can honestly say no other high schoolers would get an opportunity to do,” said Eshaan in a previous interview.
